- Nielsen: TV Households Rise In 2008-09 TV Season
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 29, 2008
The U.S. TV audience continues its slow growth path, with Asian a ...
- Wednesday: 'Talent' Delivers For NBC, Convention Doesn't
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 29, 2008
NBC still rides the post-Olympic gravy train to a win on Wednesd ...
- Big-Screen TV Depression? Not In These Economic Times
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 29, 2008
The economy got you down? No money for gas or food? Th ...
- Post-Olympics Sees TV Ratings Slide
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 27, 2008
On first blush, NBC's Beijing Olympics promotion for its other TV sho ...
- CNN Wins Opening Convention Coverage
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 27, 2008
The cable news networks' first big night of the political season h ...
- GM's Oscars Pullout May Be Tempered By Upfront-, Olympics-Fueled Optimism
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 27, 2008
General Motors out of the Oscars? Don't worry ABC; just consider ...
- Fourth Judge Brings More Girl Power To 'American Idol'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The biggest TV network show is making it a foursome--"American Idol" ...
- Going For Gold: Olympics Ratings Exceeded Expectation
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 26, 2008
NBC's Beijing Olympics telecast ended with a still-massive rating on Sunday night--althou ...
- NBC Olympics Online: Big Viewership, Not Much Ad Sales
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 26, 2008
What's the difference between traditional TV and Internet video these days? ...
- ANA: Markets Slash And Burn Budgets
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 25, 2008
The Association of National Advertisers, in a recent survey of its member ...
- Olympic Wrap: Ed McMahon, The Eagles, And The Trampoline
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 25, 2008
Now that the torch has been extinguished on the Games of t ...
- Ad Gold: Only 3 Advertisers Score Big Olympic Recall
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 22, 2008
NBC's Olympic rating success hasn't meant big success for a wide ran ...
- Brandtique: Venus, Pontiac, MySpace, Dog Fancy
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 22, 2008
When is a product placement not a product placement? When it ...
- Nielsen: Obama Beats McCain In Net Audience, McCain Airs More Cable, Radio Ads
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 22, 2008
Heading into the national conventions, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama had ...
- NBC: Olympic Ratings Slow Down
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 22, 2008
NBC's Beijing Olympics still dominates the prime-time scorecard--although hitting its next-to-lowest viewi ...
- Big Olympics Ratings: Will NBC's New Shows Get A Golden Halo?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 22, 2008
Those big Olympic-sized ratings took NBC by surprise. But what's next? T ...
- NBC Rakes In Another $15 Million In TV Olympics Sales
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 20, 2008
NBC's Beijing Olympics may be losing a bit of steam in ter ...
- Swinand Takes Starcom Global Group President Post
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 20, 2008
As she forms her own team following the resignation of Renata McCa ...
- Consumers Moved To Action By Local Online Ads
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Local media may be suffering a bit in this weak advertising market--ev ...
- The CW Holds On To '90210'; Will Critics And Viewers Let Go?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 20, 2008
In the TV marketing game, CW is doing the poker-playing equivalent ...
- ABC Takes Over 'TV Guide' Issue For Its Fall Shows
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 19, 2008
For TV Guide's August 25th issue, (which will hit newsstands on Thursda ...
- Big Olympics Ratings For NBC. But How Did Beach Volleyball Do?
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 19, 2008
While NBC's overall ratings have indeed been golden for the Beijing Olympic ...
- The Next Big TV Awards Shows For Your Media Plan Could Come With Chubby Ratings
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Your award shows with big ratings are finally here -- whether it ...
- Phelps' Eighth Gold Gives NBC Its Best Saturday In 18 Years
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 18, 2008
NBC's Beijing Olympics' highly touted swimming event arrived as promised--with a b ...
- TV Brands Keep Coming Back -- On Every Platform
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 18, 2008
When TV times are tough, the TV answer is to find bran ...
- Going For Gold: NBC Sells $10 Mil More In Olympic Ads
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 15, 2008
With NBC's Beijing Olympics on pace to exceed advertisers' ratings guarantees, t ...
- TVB Says Ad Sales Down, But Syndie Up 9.1%
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 15, 2008
Broadcast television advertising in the second quarter was generally hit with ...
- Young Broadcasting Drops 6.7% In 2Q
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 15, 2008
Young Broadcasting said net revenue in the second quarter was $37 millio ...
- Kagan: Slow Ad Growth For Cable In '09
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Those double-digit percentage gains in cable networks' advertising revenues are about ...
- Olympics Win NBC Ratings Gold
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 13, 2008
A few days into the Beijing Olympics, NBC is doing something th ...